Taiwan, China Talks End Cordially

First High-Level Parley Yields No Agreement, But Potentially Opens Door to Political Dialogue

By

Jenny W. Hsu

Updated Feb. 26, 2014 9:28 a.m. ET

TAIPEI—Relations between China and Taiwan took a step forward, after the first high-level formal government meeting between the two sides ended in a cordial tone, potentially opening the door to the political dialogue for which Beijing has been pushing.

Heads of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council and China's Taiwan Affairs Office met on Tuesday in China's eastern city of Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government before it was ousted by Communist Party forces and retreated to Taiwan in 1949. The two have been...